updates to libmtp9 in trusty

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:32:30 -0400, David H. Durgee wrote:
>When will trusty be upgraded to the 1.1.10 release of the library so 
>that I can access my phone?

Ubuntu is a release model distro. Trusty is a long term support release.
Upgrades will happen, if there are valid reason, e.g. regarding security
issues. Upgrades to provide new features would risk to break stability,
something nobody wants and something that is completely against the
Ubuntu releases policy.

If other packages link against a dedicated version of a library, all
those packages need to be rebuild. If the new version of a library
depends on newer versions of other libraries, all those dependencies
needs to be rebuild and all packages that need a dedicated version of
any of those dependencies too.

You should expect updates only for very good reasons.

Assumed there aren't to much dependency issues, it's possible that you
build a package for the new lib on your own. It's also possible to
provide several versions of a lib, but then you are on your own too.

If there's no other reason than missing support for your phone, then
most likely there never will be an upgrade available by the official
Trusty repos.